CD Projekt Pink will lay off round 30 extra staff by the top of 2023 as improvement on Gwent: The Witcher Card Sport winds down.
Revealed in a weblog submit on Gwent’s web site, CD Projekt Pink confirmed that “about 30 remaining Gwent crew members are going to half methods” with the studio.
This contradicts a press release from December when the developer informed IGN {that a} small variety of staff could be saved on to maintain the sport working whereas the remaining workers could be moved to different tasks at CD Projekt Pink.
A spokesperson informed IGN that 4 crew members shall be laid off in June, with CD Projekt Pink step by step growing this quantity all year long till round 30 workers have been laid off in whole.
“It’s by no means simple to say goodbye,” the developer mentioned within the weblog submit. “And although selections like this are unavoidable and a pure results of the transition, we’d like to specific our honest thanks for all of the contributions these crew members have made to Gwent. Similar to the group, you helped make the sport what it’s immediately.”
This announcement from CD Projekt Pink follows two different waves of lay-offs. The Molasses Flood, which is owned by CD Projekt Pink and presently growing the troubled Undertaking Sirius Witcher recreation, noticed 29 crew members laid off earlier in Could.
CD Projekt Pink additionally introduced the closure of The Witcher: Monster Slayer in December final yr, revealing that lay-offs could be made at developer Spokko because of this.
Improvement on Gwent is presently being switched to a community-focused approached. CD Projekt Pink introduced the change in December although assured the sport will stay on-line for years to return, with last “official” updates being constituted of the event crew between now and the top of 2023.
Gwent celebrated its 5 yr anniversary of getting into open beta in Could 2022, however was first launched in closed beta again in October 2016. Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales was launched as a full RPG spin-off in 2018 and a single-player standalone growth known as Gwent: Rogue Mage was launched in 2022.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer and appearing UK information editor. He’ll discuss The Witcher all day.
